gulf
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He predicts a situation going forward he characterizes as “Schrödinger’s Strait,” whereby the chokepoint in the Iranian gulf is theoretically open but in practice, still closed.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
The leveraged fund earned an annualized average of 1.6 percentage points less than the underlying index over the long run—a cumulative gulf of more than 590 percentage points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Thirlwall added her report described "dysfunctional management and governance, a gulf between hospital leadership and clinicians, and failure to understand the fundamentals of safeguarding".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The gulf between contribution rates of those paying loans and those without debt widened with age.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Minli felt as if she were on the edge of the world as she stared across the great gulf separating them from the Never-Ending Mountain.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
All nine countries lining the two connected gulfs, including Iran under any management, will want passage restored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
"It does give me confidence because I think the problem before was that I felt like I was gulfs away from the very top."
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
Soaring income inequality and a housing crisis have widened the gulfs between classes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
The other two spawn in the spring in either the central Baltic or its gulfs farther north.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2022
She could feel the emptiness, the vast black gulfs of air that yawned around her.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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